LOTI 088 : Nobody Dies Until Everything Finishes

Intro:

Welcome to the Legend of the Innkeeper. We’re glad you could join us for our 88th episode.

This week we are talking about…

Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests? Ranked play? Fun Guaranteed with friends?

News

Possible leak of release date? – A reddit user posted a screenshot from the client. When you click on the Naxxramas bundle in the Battle.net shop, a warning message comes up saying that on April 26th, you can only use those cards in Wild Format.

Getting Better

Hallazeal clarification – @giffenaw “Suppose I’m playing Shaman at 3 health with Hallazeal out, and I play Hellfire (gotten from. say. Spellslinger). Do I die?” “Hallazeal wording implies yes, I would die (as I would heal after the damage is dealt), but it’s be nice to get confirmation :)” @bdbrode – “nobody dies until everything finishes.”

New Cards

Scaled Nightmare

At 6 cost, it’s likely that the card will last 1 turn making it 4/8. 6 mana for a 4/8 isn’t that great. But if you can get it to go one more round, a 8/8 for 6 is great.

More fodder for Anyfin Can Happen (10 mana, summon 7 murlocs that died this game)

Thing from Below

ALL totems including Hero Power totems

Could be come a 0 mana, 5/5 Taunt.

Tuskarr Totemic’s best friend

Combo with Master of Evolution!!

Master of Evolution

As mentioned above, Combo with Master of Evolution for a new 7 drop.

Combo’s with Brann Bronzebeard, which would end up with a 8 drop. (unconfirmed)

At worst it’s a Chillwind Yeti

Ravaging Ghoul

Patron/enrage minion activator but will it replace Whirlwind?

Anti-Stand Against Darkness minion

Likely more use in a Control deck than Patron deck

Mire Keeper

Mire Keeper Clarification – “If we play it while at 10 mana and choose second option, do we get the 0-cost Draw card?” “Mire Keeper doesn’t give you Excess Mana when played at 10 mana and Gain an Empty Mana Crystal is chosen”

Replacement for Piloted Shredder in Ramp Druid

This could mean a 3/3 on turn 2 followed by a 4 drop on turn 3 (ahead 1 mana)

Hammer of Twilight

Great mid-range and Aggro Shaman card.

No Overload

Dare I say, combo with Captain Greenskin? But might want to run multiple weapons.

Clarification: If there are 3 BofAO, then only 2 will merge into The Ancient One

The Ancient One

See above

Clarification: The Ancient One can only be created by two Blood of the Ancient One merging. Cannot be summoned by random effects like Effigy.

Clarification: Both BotAO would need to be silenced to prevent them merging.

Reviews and Emails

iTunes Reviews: 1

Fun Show! – matadordog

Espo is a great source of knowledge. The host is a good player too and keeps the show moving well. The newbies on the show (squishy-dragon and ary) offer a unique perspective. Please tell the newbie’s to play Tavern Brawl. It only takes a few minutes and gives a free pack! If you’ve played Tavern Brawl since it first opened Hearthstone has given away $50 worth of packs for free. (via Reddit)

With the old gods expansion coming out, I am really looking forward to some of the possible tavern brawls to come. One that I hope they make is a battle of the Old Gods where you can select one of the 4 Old Gods and have a pre-constructed deck built around them.

Outro

That does it for this episode. You can email the show at info@legendoftheinnkeeper.com. You can also visit our website at legendoftheinnkeeper.com where we will post the show notes with the episode that has links to all the information we discussed.